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The 2010 removal of the Dillsboro Dam from the Tuckasegee River in Dillsboro This is a list of dams in North Carolina that have been removed as physical impediments to free-flowing rivers or streams.
Kyzyl-Agash Dam: 2010-03-11 Qyzylaghash: Kazakhstan 43 Heavy rain and snowmelt. Causes, deathtoll disputed. Three hundred people were injured and over 1,000 evacuated from the village. Hope Mills Dam: 2010-06-16 North Carolina: United States 0 Sinkhole caused dam failure. Second failure of the dam, will be replaced. Testalinda Dam: 2010-06-13
LORAN-C transmitter Carolina Beach: Carolina Beach, North Carolina, US: Radio tower: 1958: Collapse of the Ochsenkopf Transmitter: Ochsenkopf, Germany: Guyed mast: 1959: Vega de Tera: Ribadelago, Spain: Dam: 144 dead 1959: Malpasset: Côte d'Azur, France: Dam: 423 dead 1959 October cinema collapse Bryansk, USSR Cinema 46 dead, at least 123 ...
The nearly 100-year-old dam suffered damage to its structural supports but was still holding Friday afternoon, officials said. NC officials detect damage to Lake Lure dam after emergency ...
Authorities went house-to-house urging people below the dam of a popular lake in the western North Carolina mountains to evacuate Friday after officials warned the barrier could be nearing failure.
Hiwassee Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Hiwassee River in Cherokee County, in the U.S. state of North Carolina.It is one of three dams on the river owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the late 1930s to bring flood control and electricity to the region. [1]
At 9 a.m. Friday, town officials notified the Rutherford County Emergency Management office about the pending dam failure, saying water from the lake was expected to top the dam before 10 a.m.
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality said on its website on Friday morning that the 480-foot long dam was eroding on one side. An update posted earlier in the day said that dam ...